Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-03
CLIMBING,
THE SALES OF FARMING LAND
STEADILY INCREASING.
Interesting Interview With a Citi.
zen of St. Paul-Booms in
Other Sections.

real estate. especially farm ISnuS, ina
changed hands yesterday made the larges
actual cash showing of any days transac
ton within the week. The city lots, which
had the call for the first few days and Sc
the town wild with excitement have some
what subsidized, and improved property nov
is most sought for. A remarkable fact
and one that evidences the prosperity o
the city-is the great demand for houses
The signs "to LETT and " for sale" are sci
dom seen, and gentleman from Los An
geles, who desires to take up his residence
in this city, yesterday could not find de
Sirable house to live in, although he made
visit to every real estate agent in the city
Business houses on and X streets
ARE ALL OCCUPIED,
And office rooms on either street cannot be
obtained. except on the second floor
Parties here from Stockton, who desire to
suitable building in the city. The hotels
are all doing a good business, and the num-
Der of Eastern and other visitors in the
city was never larger. The coming State
Fair, which opens on the 18th, will no
doubt eclipse any former exhibition, as it
will enable parties from all over the coast
to visit the State Fair and get in on our
boom at the same time.
The County Auditor is swamped with
instruments TO record, and they came in
yesterday thicker and faster than eyer.
$50, 900 farm is sold with less noise and
flourish than 5000 lot on Y street Hun
dreds of bargains of elegant country homes
are being sold in the county that are not
known until the instrument of transfer is
brought in for record.
AN EASTERN MANS OPINION.
Alexander Berghold, of St Paul. Mime.
sofa, who has been travelling in Florida,
Mississippi, Texas and Southern California,
is spending few days in Sacramento, and
is spying out the land y in the interest OF
Western German colonies. He is delighted
with Northern California, and says of all
the sections he has visited-and he has
spent several days in each-fe has seen
nothing to compare with the fertile valley
of the Sacramento and her contiguous we'll
watered foothill sections. Mr.. Berghold is
an eminent German author and the cor
of several of the leading German
papers in the Northwest To-day he will
visit the Natoma vineyard and the grape
lands in the neighborhood of Folsom, La
trobe and Shingle Springs. What he is
DESTROYS of finding is foothill lands where
water for irrigation is abundant, where fuel
is easily obtained, where
RAILROAD FACILITIES ARE SUFFICIENT.
And where the grape will grow TO perfec-
ton and mature. He is not looking for
improved lands, but lands unimproved,
so that he can plant his vineyard to suit
his own taste, where he can clothe the
ole
will remind him of the vine-clad hills of
the Rhine. He remarked: This is the
home of the vine, the land of wine, where
the young should never grow DID, and the
healthfulness of the climate should make
centenarians of us all" He said Florida
could not compare with California in no
respect. 1t is true she has fruits and flowers
in abundance, her semi-tropical homes are
pictures of paradise itself. but all the
beauty of earth seems to have been re-
served for use in California. What Florida
has that is good, California has it in a su-
perlative degree. One thing that is strik-
inglv strange to the man that has travelled
in semi-tropical countries is the
REMARKABLE HEALTHfULNEss
OF this climate. Tropical plants grow in
profusion, the exotics of every cline bios
som in your door-yards, yet am told that
fever and ague and miasma of any kind is
unheard of. l am glad l came to Sacra-
mento in your dry season, in what is
termed your hot SPELL" for am now
supposed to see your section in its least
presentable shape. Once a year, the
spring-time, every country in the world
has few weeks of beauty; with you, how
ever, it seems to be one perpetual spring
and summer, the distinguishing character
istics of the season blend together in such
manner that they come and go imper-
ceptibly. l am satisfied that my people
will be
SATISFIED WITH THIS COUNTRY.
They never have lived in such climate,
they have never had such an opportunity
to secure cheap home, they never before
have had an opportunity to move into q
winterless climate, and, my word for it,
many of them will be citizens of this State
before another year rolls around. WHY
should man, who has small means, and
who is striving to rear and educate a fam
lily OF children, live in Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin or Dakota, when the same investment
here will add twice as much to his pre-
perity and happiness? Why should he
pass a four months winter in doors. burn
ing expensive fuel, when at the same time
he could be blowing and sowing his grain
in this section in his shirt sleeves, and his
stock, instead of being housed and fed
frozen vegetables, be grazing on your green
hillsides? This seems like an overdrawn
picture. 1t is, you will admit, not over
drawn on your side, and if you will spend
next winter with me in st. Paul, / will
prove to you that | am not putting il too
strong about my own section. Your lands
are cheap, your railroad facilities good,
and still extending, your fruits delicious
and your climate delightful
The real estate men are very confident
that the prices asked now are as low, if not
lower, than will ever be obtained again
Yesterday some good turns were made | Y
the small buyers, One purchaser was OF.
fered an advance of $3.50 before the deed
be made out, but he evidently had faith in
his bargain, and refused it. Newton Fay
last evening offered gentleman 81 900 fol
a $50 option that he took several days ago
but it also was refused.
The San Francisco Bulletin of last even
ing says a delegation of Sacramento
business men, together with Railroad Com
missioner Abbott, called upon General
Pass niger Agent Goodman of the Soutber
Pacific yesterday to ascertain what ar.
rangements could be made for a specia
excursion to Sacramento. A land sale Of
importance was set for the 10th inst, anC
the attendance of many people from The
city was desired. After considerable dis
cussion it was decided to defer the sal,
until Tuesday, the 18th inst. This viii
be during the State Fair, which will oper
on Monday. the 18th. There will ther
be the triple attractions for excursionist,
of the real estate sale, the fair and cheaI
excursion rates. for the round trip
Tickets will be good from Monday unit
Wednesday.
During the State Fair special far,
round-trip rates will be made from al
principal points in the State The entir
schedule has not been completed but will
be duly announced. The rate from thi
city, round trip, will be 81, tickets bein,
good during the two weeks that the fai
will be in progress"
CAPAY VALLEY.
This beautiful valley in Yolo county ha
now been opened up by the recent con
struction and extension of the Vaca Valle-
and Clear Lake Railroad from Madison III
TO Rumsey's, distance of twenty-eigh
miles. The extended line follows the val
lev of the Cache creek up to its end. /
passes through the rich land of the oil,
Spanish grant rancho of Canada de Capay
Large sections of land, amounting in all /
8. 100 acres have been purchased in thi
valley by Leland Stanford, c. F. Croker
Timothy Hopkins and other officials o
the Southern Pacific. The new railroa,
line passes directly through the pun
oI,asaj nropartv which ponpriSas or